Fonts and XKB problems

Anton Markov anton at truxtar.com
Sat Sep 18 20:39:07 PDT 2004


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I don't know if you've already tried this, but XORG 6.8 uses a new
keyboard driver called "kbd" not "keyboard". You'll have to change this
under the appropriate "device" section in /etc/X11/XF86Config (or the
new /etc/X11/xorg.conf). This may or may not help.

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
~ > 2) Keyboard. For ages, I've been carrying an old hacked keymap that
| works for French "mac" keyboards. They have a few weird things, like the
| pipe "|" is obtained with shift-alt-L or the tilde "~" (which is a dead
| key) with alt-N. Part of the "fix" to get that working was to define alt
| as Mode_switch.. that and more hacks that I don't really understand
| since I'm almost clueless about XKB (sorry guys, out of the kernel I'm
| lost :) The problem is that while this keymap still works for | or ~,
| when it's loaded, I can no longer switch virtual consoles with
| meta-alt-Fn. While this works fine with my old XFree it doesn't with
| X.org. Any clue in fixing that keymap properly once for all is
| appreciated so we can maybe commit it to the X.org CVS... I enclosed my
| old hacked one from symbols/macintosh/fr

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